| Heading: |
Emergency Calls |
| Question ID: |
1810634 |
| UIN: |
58193 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3924 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Yasmin Qureshi
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| Asking Member handle: |
YasminQureshiMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@YasminQureshiMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to make purposely delaying calling emergency services during a medical emergency a crime. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4849 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Alex Davies-Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
AlexDaviesJones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AlexDaviesJones
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Government has no current plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make it a crime to delay calling emergency services during a medical emergency.Although no general duty applies to members of the public to act in such circumstances in England ... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |